Week of October 1

Journées de la culture was a glorious extended celebration between Friday and Tuesday, involving many hours of work by many people. Thank you to all who volunteered their skills and their time. We had an official visitor from the organisers of the Journées de la culture on Saturday. She stayed...

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Week of Sept 23

The Cathedral and Diocesan offices need you to pray for the still small voice of calm to be heard this coming week. There are 4 wonderful and joyful days coming up, starting on Friday with the first of 3 days celebrating Les journées de la culture and finishing with the...

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Coming Together For Refugees

Photo: On a beach in Morocco, people take up the posture of little Aylan Kurdi, whose whose death sounded a wake-up call to the world, How are you responding personally to the refugee crisis? By endorsing  the recommendations of Canadian organizations that work with refugees, about how to ramp up our...

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Week of September 17

I think you will feel breathless after reading about all the whirlwind of events at the cathedral during the next three weeks – so hold on to your hats and grab your agendas The winds start blowing this Sunday with three events scheduled after the end of the 10am Eucharist,...

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Les Journées de la Culture

  Christ Church Cathedral is excited to be participating in Les Journées de la Culture! Friday 25th September   Saturday 26th September   And on Sunday 27th September, join us for Sung Evensong followed by an English tea on the lawn!    

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Week of September 4th

“No man is an island entire of itself” wrote John Donne in the seventeenth century, blithely unaware of political correctness. “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This awareness of our connectedness to the world around the Cathedral is notable in many events taking...

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Week of August 28th

If you are interested in attending the service of Consecration and Installation of Bishop-Elect Mary Irwin-Gibson as the 12th Bishop of Montreal on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, on the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, at 7:00 pm you must act now!  Reserve your ticket by emailing the bishop’s...

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Week of August 20

Four events will close off August and then it’s on to a busy September. Saturday August 22 at 4:30 L’Oasis Musicale presents On danse/Let’s Dance, featuring the famous Brahms Hungarian dances; ballets of Debussy and Gavrilin; the well-known Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the less-known but very funny Jolly Caballero,...

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The holiness of ambiguity

On August 6th, the Feast of the Transfiguration and the Commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima, the Rev’d Shintaro David Ichihara, of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (The Anglican Communion in Japan) preached at the noonday Eucharist at Christ Church Cathedral.   Sermon for the Feast of Transfiguration at IALC Conference Shintaro...

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Week of August 7

Celebration! This word is the thread which runs through all the newsletter items this week, whether we are reading about endings, beginnings, thanksgiving or outreach – fit topics for an August newsletter. This Sunday, during the 4 pm Evensong service, we will be celebrating Bishop Barry’s 11 years of ministry...

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Week of July 30

This Saturday we are honoured to welcome Father Michael Lapsley to the Cathedral. An Anglican priest, long active in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, he is currently the director of the Institute for the Healing of Memories. The thoughts he will share with us are relevant to our own...

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